#003
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Taking action after 40 years of Austerity
As per a recent study, one in three students suffers from food insecurity. For many, it’s impossible to find housing. Those who are able, through great effort, to make ends meet often do so by incurring years of debt. Choosing to study, to want to learn, is now choosing precarity. This is all without taking into account those who can’t access education, maybe because their rent is too high, or…
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The Strike against the Makeup Mays at Maisonneuve College
Until recently, the Cégep Maisonneuve’s admin made a habit of systematically forcing a making up of the school calendar after strikes. For every day of striking, they added a day of classes. By attacking the tactic of the local student union, the SOGEECOM, the administration wished to render it useless. That was before students got involved and ruined that plan. During the winter of 2025’s semester, after having adopted a…
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Austerity, military — go fuck yourselves
In a world of constant semi–Cold War, the armies of the richest countries essentially become public militias specialized in exploiting poorer countries. Nuclear deterrence has prevented any war between Western countries since 1946. The question then arises: why is it still relevant to fund the Canadian military? No but seriously, I swear the military is important… The military is the result of a mix between the human tendency toward conflict…
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Intersectionality and Precarity
These days, everything is going up: our rent, the cost of food, our tuition fees, and so on. And what increases for everyone has an exponential impact on some people, those who are already in vulnerable positions. Capitalism and the government deliberately abandon certain groups and act as if they do not exist in order to better exploit them. This text aims to highlight the realities of various people who…
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What’s the point of a leftist newspaper in 2026?
Leftist journalism is necessary. While there’s no shortage of high quality centrist journalists, leftist perspectives can enrich journalistic work, especially where centrist media have erred. Is there such a thing as neutral? Choosing is renouncing. Every time a paper decides to cover an issue, a protest, some politician’s comment, one scandal rather than another, it renounces the opportunity to cover another story. What they choose to cover reveals the editorial…
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Against austerity: wages for users of public services
Public-sector unions have an unfortunate habit; they tend to remember the well-being of service users only when budget cuts are announced or when labor contracts are being negotiated. At those moments, they call on public solidarity, reminding people that the quality of services depends on the quality of working conditions. That is not false, not at all. It is true that better services are achieved by paying employees properly and…
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STRIKEFEST – ON TOUR AT YOUR SCHOOL!
How noisy our existence is! The noise of cash-printing machines artificially pumping up economic growth. The noise of the polished shoes of high dignitaries striking the asphalt of our life-less sidewalks. The noise of a few mouths stuffing themselves while we make do with the growling of our stomachs. Noise, noise. Noise so loud we can’t even hear ourselves think anymore. But our decibels are different. The overdriven mic of…
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Enough Fooling Around: Against the Exploitation and Alienation of Internships
Those who govern us teach us that an internship is “a practical training or learning experience, with an educational purpose, that is supervised and allows for the observation, acquisition, or application of skills in a work environment.” Really now! Many of us, precarious students who have experienced the exhaustion and precarity of internships, would have a lot to say about that definition. The statement above reveals one of the essential…
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The hunger justifies the means
We are the Robin des Ruelles, the Robin Hood of the Alleys. On the evening of Monday December 25th, we stole $3,000 worth of food from the Metro on Laurier Street in Montreal, a grocery chain that recorded over a billion dollars in profits for the year 2025. We left the food under a Christmas tree at Place Valois in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. We struck there, but it could have been anywhere…
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From secularism to catho-secularism, amen!
“To all Quebeckers, [my wife] and I wish you a Merry Christmas 🎄!” These are the words of François Legault, Premier of so-called Quebec, a month after his government tabled the Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Quebec. As early as 2019, during its first mandate, the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) adopted under closure the Act respecting the laicity of the State, better known as Bill 21. Re-elected afterwards,…